The difference between pine nuts and hazelnuts

Pine nuts are the seeds of pine trees, also known as sea pine nuts, fruit pines and so on. They are not only delicious food, but also good food for dietotherapy, so they are known as "longevity fruits". Hazelnut, also known as Corylus officinalis, Corylus officinalis, mountain chestnut and so on, is one of the important nut species. It is the kernel of birch plant hazel. Let's take a look at the difference between pine nuts and hazelnuts.

Differences between families and genera of pine nuts and hazelnuts

1. Pine nuts: pine nuts are evergreen trees of plant kingdom, pine cypress gate, pine cypress class, pine cypress order, pine family, pine genus.

2. Hazelnut: hazelnut is a plant kingdom, angiosperm phylum, dicotyledonous class, Fagoptera, Betulaceae, Corylus shrubs or small trees.

Morphological differences between pine nuts and hazelnuts

1. Pine nuts: pine nuts up to 45 meters high, breast diameter 1.5 meters, reddish brown bark, lower grayish brown. Needles 2 needles a bunch, sparse 3 needles a bunch, 12-20 cm long, soft, slightly twisted, stomatal lines on both sides, edges serrulate. The cones are monoecious and unisexual. The small cones grow rapidly after fertilization in the second spring. The upper part of the seed is winged, and the seed wing is combined with the seed.

2. Hazelnut: the bark of hazel tree is dark gray, brown or grayish brown, the buds are ovoid with many imbricate bud scales, simple leaves alternate, leaf veins pinnate, flowers unisexual, style 2, bracts campanulate or tubular, nuts globose, 1 seed, cotyledons fleshy.

The difference of origin between pine nuts and hazelnuts

1. Pine nuts: about 80 species of pine, distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, north to the Arctic, south to North Africa, Central America, Indochina Peninsula and south of the Sumatra equator. It is the main tree species for the production of wood and pine resin in the world. 22 species and 10 varieties are produced in China, which are distributed all over the country, such as Pinus koraiensis, Pinus elliottii, Pinus yunnanensis, Pinus massoniana, Pinus tabulaeformis, Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica and so on.

2. Hazelnut: there are mainly two kinds of hazelnut in China: large fruit hybrid hazel and wild hazel. The national large fruit hybrid hazel is distributed in Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Henan Province, Hebei Province, * * Uygur Autonomous region, Qinghai Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, Jiangsu Province, northern Anhui Province and so on. Chinese wild Corylus officinalis is native to Tieling City, Liaoning Province, and is distributed in the northern provinces, mostly in Tieling City.

The difference of efficacy between pine nuts and hazelnuts

1, pine nuts: pine nuts taste sweet, warm, return to the liver, lung, large intestine meridians, with the effect of nourishing yin, nourishing qi and blood, moistening dryness and smooth intestine, suitable for elderly physical weakness, dry stool, chronic bronchitis, chronic cough without phlegm, cardio-cerebrovascular and other diseases.

2. Hazelnut: hazelnut taste sweet, sexual flat, return to the spleen and stomach meridian, with the effect of tonifying spleen and stomach, tonifying energy, suitable for people with spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea, loss of appetite, lack of appetite, chronic dysentery.